U+9021 "逡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+9021 "逡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically conveys the sense of shrinking back, hesitating, or retreating, often used in classical texts to describe a cautious or timid movement away from something. Its composition combines the radical for movement or walking (辶) with the phonetic component 夋 (qūn), which hints at its pronunciation in Modern Standard Chinese as qūn. This character appears in literary expressions like 逡巡 (qūnxún), meaning to hesitate or to pace back and forth, reflecting its nuanced role in describing human behavior with a sense of wavering or reluctance. The character is part of the larger CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, which standardizes characters shared across these languages.